Luggage-carrier for automobiles.



E. M. ARNOLD.

LUGGAGE CARRIER FOR AUTOMOBILES. APPLICATION FILED OCT. 18. 1916.

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EDWIN MARION ARNOLD, 0F TULSA, OKLAHOMA.

LUGGAGE-CARRIER FOR AUTOMOBILES.

Application filed October 18, 1916.

To all w/wm it may concern Be it known that l, EnwiN M. AimoLn, a citizen of the United States. and a resident of Tulsa, in the county of Tulsa and State of Oklahoma, have invented a new and linproved Luggage-Carrier for Automobiles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to means for carrying trunks and luggage on an aiiton'iohile. and has for its general object to provide a carrier applicable to the running board of the machine.

The invention also has for its object to provide a carrier having means to enlarge or contract the same longitudinally or transversely, to vary its capacity.

A' further object of the invention is to provide means on the carrier wherehy the trunk or luggage may be firmly strapped in place and be prevented from shifting or moving on the running hoard to scratch or mar the latter or whereby the trunk may he quickly released for removal from the carmerit, will more clearly appear as the descriptioi'i proceeds.

Reference is to he. had to the accompany- Specification of Letters Patent.

ing drawings forming a part of this specification in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

' Figure 1 is a perspective view of a luggage carrier embodying my invention. showing the same applied:

Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the carrier, the running board to which it is applied being in section;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary plan view;

Fig. 4 is a front view with parts in section on the line 4--4. Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is a detail end view of the clamp memhers modified to conform to a running hoard having no depending flange or-apron.

In carrying out my invention in accord ance with the illustrated example, the carrier is formed with end structures and an adjustable front. eludes a lower clamp arm 10 adapted to he Each end structure in Patent ed July 1118 1917'.

Serial No. 126.277.

disposed transversely heneath the running hoard ll of an automobile A, and may be provided at its inner end with a set screw 11 to hear against the under side of the running hoard. In the form shown in Figs. 1 to 4 the outer end of clamp arm 10 is formed with a depending member having a vertical slot 12 to receive the downturned flange b.

of the running board.

The clamp arm 10 is integral or otherwise rigid with uprights 13 rising at a height to extend above the running board. On each post 13, near the lower end, a clamp arm 14 is pivoted at its outer end as at 15 to swing in a vertical. plane from the lowered clamping position indicated in full lines Fig. '2 to a raised position as in dotted lines. lo secure each upper clamp arm 14, a lock iiig post '16 is pivoted at its upper end by a holt 18 or the like to the inner end of an upper transverse hair 20. the respective bars 20 being rigid respectively at their outer ends with the adjacent posts 13. Thus, the posts 16 may swing in vertical planes on the holts 18. At the lower end, each post 16 is vertically slotted as at 17 to snugly receive the adjacent clamp arm 14 and is threaded to receive aclamping nut 17 so that the tightening or loosening'of the said nut will cause the slotted end of the post to tightly provide a trunk strap 19 adjustable hythe usual buckle. The ends of the strap 19 are secured to loops 21 provided on the cross bars 20 at the inner ends thereof.

Thus with the carrier in position the trunk may he firmly secured against movement and thereby prevented from scratching or otherwise marriiig the running board.

A front is provided on the carrier connecting the end structures thereof and adapted to he extended or contracted or adjusted transversely on the end structures. For the stated purpose slide bars .22 are provided with keepers or slides 23 at the inner ends thereof embracing the rigid bars 20 and provided with set screws 24:. The bars 22 have also guided movement. in rigid keepers 25 on the upper ends of the uprights 13, and provided with set screws 26 at the outer ends. The slide bars 22 carry posts 27 that extend v above and below the same. The respective posts 27 are extensibly connected, use being made for this purpose of a lazy tongs 28. The end members of the lazy tongs 28 are pivotally secured at the bottom to the posts 27 by fixed bands 29 on said posts, or equivalent means, while at the top the end members are pivotally connected with sliding bands or sleeves 30 on said posts. Set screws 31, 32 may be provided on the bands 29, 30. Stop pins 33 maybe provided on the posts 27 to prevent complete displacement of the bands 30.

It will be obvious that through the medium of the lazy tongs 28 the carrier may be collapsed endwise or extended to accommodate baggage of a given size or quantity and the front may be adjusted transversely through the medium of the slide bars 22. In securing the carrier in position with the form of clamp shown in Figs. 1 to 4, the nuts 17 are raised and posts 16 swung on the bolts 18, and the upper clamp bars 14 are.

posts 16 and set screws 11 permit of the clamps bein passed onto or removed from v the running card by straight sliding movebe disposed transversely beneath the running board of an automobile, an upper clamp member pivoted to swing in a vertical plane above the running board, transverse members on the end structures above the upper clamp members, and a swinging locking device pivotally hung on each of said transverse members and each having means at its lower end engageable with the upper clamp arm to lock the same.

2. In a luggage carrier of the class described, end structures each including a frame, a lower clamp member rigid with the frame at the bottom and'adapted to be disposed beneath the running board of the automobile, an upper clamp member pivoted on said frame to swing in a vertical plane to effect clamping engagement with the running board at the upper side, a front connecting the said end structures, the end frames having rearwardly extending members above the upper clamps, depending locking devices pivotally hung on said members to swing toward or from the .said upper clamp members, and means adjustable on said locking devices to effect engagement gvith or to disengagethe upper clamp memers.

EDWIN MARION ARNOLD 

